Upsurge in 'newly hungry' forced to use East Kilbride food banks

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Local food banks have highlighted a worrying trend of East Kilbride's "newly hungry" - a growing number of working people on comfortable incomes who are being forced to ask for handouts for the first time as the cost of living crisis hits hard.EK Community Food Bank and Loaves and Fishes are seeing the demand for their services increase week-on-week with each service reporting around a 30 per cent rise from the start of the year.Food banks are now seeing families through their doors who, pre-pandemic, were able to pay their bills and still be comfortable enough to put food on the table.And with a sharp drop in donation levels as more and more families find it harder to meet basic costs each month, they say the situation is now critical.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android Currently EK Community Food Bank, a non-profit network of local churches in East Kilbride, is dishing out more than 180 emergency food parcels to 156 households every week, with 765 handed out to 908 adults and 298 children last month alone.

Organiser Karen Dornan told Lanarkshire Live : "Although the community does still continue to be extremely generous, we are definitely seeing a drop in donation levels which we can only assume is because more and more families are finding it harder to meet basic costs every month and have less